The JoCo Marine - December 2015

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DECEMBER NEWSLETTER 2015

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P. O. BOX 82

Clayton, NC 27520-0082




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Good of the League

Carry-On Detachment’s newest member: Marine Bill Dunn. ~ Welcome to the JoCo Marines!

240th Informal Marine Corps Birthday Luncheon in Wilson, NC

DECEMBER BIRTHDAYSJoseph Womack (12/04/1962) – 53 years young!

Alfred Peavy (12/05/1951) – 64 years young!Cynthia Shaw (12/12/1976) – 39 years young!

Ray Hunt (12/14/1949) – 66 years young!




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Corinth Holders High School Army JROTC 5th Annual Veterans Day Tribute

Smithfield-Selma High School (aka Triple SSS) 11th Annual Veterans Day Tribute




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I hope your Thanksgiving was happy and fulfilling,since we all have many things to be thankful

for. Now that December is upon us, we have a fewthings to take care of before we can turn our focus to

the Reason for the Season. Our December Good

Business Award on the 4th, leading the CountyCommissioners in the Pledge of Allegiance onMonday the 7th, and then our Annual ChristmasFamily Dinner the following evening. After that

you're on your own, unless you celebrate withsomeone else. :-) When it’s all said and done, this

has been a good year for Carry-On

Detachment. Thanks to all.

Merry Christmas Marines!

Semper Fi ~ Commandant Timothy Daniel




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Public Relations Committee (Lewis W. Rice III - Chair) • The JoCo Marine Newsletter will now be posted to our Detachment’s

Facebook page on a monthly basis as well as being mailed out and emailed, please let Lewis know if you need an electronic copy of the Detachment Flyer. ◄ This is different than the Newsletter (to hand out to prospective new members).

Flap Jack Fundraiser Committee (Lewis W. Rice III - Chair)• (Chairperson needed to take over this committee for the next event, submit

your name at the next meeting for nomination, or to Ken Parker via email.)

Good Business Award Committee (Lewis W. Rice III – Chair

December’s Good Business Award Presentation will be at:

Location: Dixie Denning LP Gas

705 S. Wall Street Friday, December 4, 2015 @ 1300 hrs.

Benson, NC 27504

Eagle Scout Good Citizenship Award Committee (Lewis W. Rice III – Chair)• None to report at this time.

Rosebuds Committee (Ken Parker - Chair)• Ken Parker reported we have some funds turned in from the

Clock and Jewelry shop.

VA Hospital Visit Committee (Ken Parker – Chair)• December 29, 2015 @ 1600 hrs. Meet at McDonald’s on US Bus 70 in Clayton.

Adopt-A-Highway Clean-up Committee (Ken Parker – Chair)• None to report at this time.

Raffle Committee (Willie Williams – Chair)• None to report at this time.

Correspondence: Mid-Winter National Conference to be held inFalls Church, VA. This will take place on 3rd, 4th, and 5th of March 2016.

Also, on Monday the 7th we have the honor of leading the Johnston CountyCommissioners meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. Be at the Courthouse in

Smithfield at 09:30 hours.




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JoCo Marines

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4 December 1950: LtCol Raymond G. Davis led his battalion into Hagaru-Ri, Korea after fourdays of intense fighting in the mountain passes against a numerically superior hostile force. His

battalion, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, helped clear the way for the 5th and 7th Marines, and LtColDavis was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism.

6 December 1928: A small detail of Marines under Captain Maurice G. Holmes defeated Nicaraguan bandits near Chuyelite. GySgt Charles Williams was mortally wounded during thefighting. Capt. Holmes was later awarded the Navy Cross for gallantry, and a posthumous awardwas given to GySgt Williams.

8 December 1941: Japanese aircraft attacked Wake Island within hours of the fateful attack onPearl Harbor. Marines of the 1st Defense Battalion and Marine Fighting Squadron 211 resistedJapanese invasion attempts for over two weeks before finally succumbing to an overwhelmingforce.

9 December 1992: Marines of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations capable)landed in Somalia kicking off Operation Restore Hope, the largest humanitarian relief operationof its kind.

10 December 1995: In Bosnia, 22 Marines from Marine Corps Security Force Company, Naples,Italy were among the first American troops to arrive. They provided the security for AlliedForces Southern Europe headquartered at Sarajevo. About 2,500 NATO troops would be in place

by 19 December taking on the task of peace enforcement in former Yugoslavia from the U.N.

15 December 1948: The Secretary of the Navy signed a "Memorandum of Agreement" with theState Department which laid the basis for the modern Marine Security Guard program at U.S.embassies throughout the world.

19 December 1972: The Marine detachment of the USS Ticonderoga provided shipboard securityfor three U.S. astronauts, Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Harrison Schmitt, and their Apollo-17space capsule. The astronauts had successfully completed a (then) record lunar stay of more than75 hours.

20 December 1989: Operation Just Cause was launched in Panama to protect American lives,restore the democratic process, preserve the integrity of the Panama Canal Treaty, and apprehendDictator General Manuel Antonio Noriega. One Marine, Corporal Garreth C. Isaak, was killedand three other were wounded during the operation.

23 December 1941: Japanese forces launched a predawn landing on Wake Island and WilkesIsland, while their carriers launched air strikes against Wilkes, Wake and Peale islands in supportof the landing force. After nearly 12 hours of desperate fighting, the three islands weresurrendered.

26 December 1957: Twenty helicopters from Marine Light Helicopter Squadron 162, wererushed to Ceylon onboard the USS Princeton where Marines participated in the rescue andevacuation of flood victims.




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Sick all

Please keep Cynthia Shaw in your thoughts and prayers.

IN MEMORY OF OUR FALLEN MARINE BROTHERS

AND SISTERS, FMF CORPSMEN AND CHAPLAINS

Tom Barrie, John Bullock, George Gillespie, Robert Moore, Willard Pleasants, Gordon Young,and Mark Wayne Williams.

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